Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:59:00 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3 Message-ID: <20120219125900.37a08c5d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4F40CD81.1000708@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAJ5UdcOobT8jmUM7KpweU1sjie4P8HvQcA0vNMQdO66ZTHXHkA@mail.gmail.com> <201202190204.q1J24gJx080884@mail.r-bonomi.com> <CAJ5UdcO%2Bx6oEuEWL4%2Bfh1TanEv1vCCnOSi%2BaZ-bcQBsehuqKsA@mail.gmail.com> <4F40CD81.1000708@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Four possibilities, roughly in order of severity: > > 1) None of the security patches between p3 and p6 did actually > touch the kernel. You can tell if this was the case by looking > at the list of modified files in the security advisory. The > kernel is affected if any files under sys have been > modified other than src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > > The last advisory that did touch the kernel was > http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc > > which should have given you 8.2-RELEASE-p4. However -- see > below. But aren't all those changes the linux kernel module, rather than the kernel itself. I think 8.2-RELEASE-p3 looks OK.
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